V-261291

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Excessive permissions on local interactive user home directories may allow unauthorized access to user files by other users.

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Note: This may miss interactive users that have been assigned a privileged User Identifier (UID). Evidence of interactive use may be obtained from a number of log files containing system logon information.

Verify the assigned home directory of all SLEM 5 local interactive users has a mode of "750" or less permissive with the following command:

     > ls -ld $(awk -F: '($3>=1000)&&($7 !~ /nologin/){print $6}' /etc/passwd)
     -rwxr-x--- 1 dosuser users 18 Mar 5 17:6 /home/dosuser

If home directories referenced in "/etc/passwd" do not have a mode of "750" or less permissive, this is a finding.